ROE Visual founder Jason Lu has taken up a new position in the Unilumin group, taking on an advisory role as President for ROE Visual and member of the board. After completing the ROE Visual management team’s transition of responsibilities, Jason Lu is ready to step up to a new role within the wider Unilumin group. As President for ROE Visual and member of the Board of Directors for Unilumin, Jason will keep an active part in rolling out strategic plans and product development. As Jason Lu states: “It’s with pride and confidence that I can leave the day-to-day business…
Author: James Robertson
In the time since it was established in 1983, Northside Baptist Church (NBC) has grown from a small group of people meeting in a living room to its current membership of 1,600. With construction now complete on its new home, the church’s management decided that it would need an audio system that could match the quality of such grand surroundings. “Since it was a new construction project, we didn’t know what the best fit for the space would be, regarding the sound system,” said Bob Slie, media director at NBC. “Our worship pastor and I attended WFX 2019 in Orlando,…
Arbane Groupe has hired Christophe Palluat de Besset as its sales director for France. Palluat will work to create new sales dynamics within the company and develop commercial activity with the APG and Active Audio brands which are both part of Arbane Group. With over 25 years of expertise in the AV industry, Palluat brings a wealth of experience working with audio manufacturers and distributors, notably Arbane Groupe’s Active Audio. “I worked in a number of roles before founding pro-audio distribution company Perfect Sound in 2009,” Palluat explains. “At the time, Active Audio’s commercial distribution in France was given exclusively…
ETC is hosting an online event on March 30-31 to launch two new theatrical fixtures. This event is open to the public and starts at 16:00 CEST/15:00 BST (09:00 CDT) with a keynote message from David Lincecum, VP of Marketing. Immediately following the keynote, attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from Tony-nominated Broadway lighting designer, Justin Townsend, on the impacts of LED on lighting design. Additional sessions over the next 24 hours include product demos and Q&A with the development team, and a series of classes that focus on incorporating technology into your theatrical workflow to increase efficiency…
The Stissing Mountain Junior/Senior High School is like many combined schoolhouses in rural America – part educational facility, part community meeting space, and often the most well-equipped location in town to host a live performance. Stissing Mountain easily checks all three capabilities for Pine Plains, New York, home to around 2,500 residents. To ensure its facilities meet the community’s varied needs, the Pine Planes Central School District recently upgraded its AV capabilities utilizing a core of Ashly Audio amplification and control solutions. “When you have a space that is truly the preeminent meeting and performance hall for a community, your…
Venice Cinemas has deployed a suite of innovative Christie projection and content management solutions to deliver awe-inspiring visuals in its upgraded multiplex in Taoyuan City. Located in the bustling business district of Zhongli, Venice Cinemas is spread across two buildings connected by an iconic, red-coloured pedestrian bridge reminiscent of those found in Venice, Italy. It recently underwent a major facelift by adding five new halls at the basement level, boosting the total number of cinema auditoriums from 10 to 15. These five new halls are equipped with 8.5-metre (27.8 foot) screens, adorned in special colour schemes, and connected to a…
Stuttgart’s Catholics can now follow the services from the Cathedral Church of St. Eberhard online as a stream. To make this possible, Broadcast Solutions has installed a streaming setup in the cathedral. Currently, the City Deanery of Stuttgart is streaming the services on Facebook, and other events, such as “Talk am Dom”, are also planned. To meet the reduced spatial conditions on-site, Broadcast Solutions decided to install the streaming setup compactly in a piece of furniture on a side gallery. This cabinet contains the complete technology, consisting of two Eizo monitors, Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro image mixer/streaming device, 4-channel audio…
Funktion-One distributor 303.bg overcame the geographical challenges of the global pandemic to specify and install one of Kosovo’s first permanent Funktion-One sound systems. Fantazia, which is operated by renowned underground promoters Servis, is a bar and club concept with high quality electronic music, excellent sound and a policy of inclusivity at its core. Servis was founded in 2016 by Leo Lumezi and Patrik Ukiq as a club night, which has expanded into a platform for unique creative concepts and collaborative experiments with its crew of DJs and designers working on projects in the arts, sound, film and fashion. Leo explained:…
Building on the success of LEDBeam 150, ROBE lighting has launched the LEDBeam 350 – a bigger, brighter – 6,600 lumen – variant moving light, which delivers more punch and presence for end users requiring clear beams and rich colour washes. Robe has retained and built on all the features of LEDBeam 150, including zoom range – 3.8° to 60° and lens coating technology, which keeps the lenses clearer and scratch-free. Anti-static properties further reduce dust collecting on the lens, and the latest coating treatment brings countless additional benefits like lengthening the intervals needed between cleaning and enhancing the light output. More advanced technology includes…
The impressive, airy Kulturhuset Spira (Culture House Spira) is a seven-story glass-and-wood structure on the banks of Lake Munksjön. Leading Swedish architect firm, Wingårdh, designed the structure that houses four stages and hosts a progressive programme of music, theatre, dance, and children’s programming, as well as serving as the headquarters for the regional Smålands Music & Theatre team. Spira translates as ‘grow’ or ‘aspire’ and this spirit infuses the team at Spira’s desire to remain at the cutting edge of technology. When they recently embarked on an upgrade to the venue audio system, they opted for L-Acoustics Kara II. L-Acoustics…
